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Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC v. Sony Pictures Classics Inc., et al

August 19, 2013The New York State Bar Association EASL Blog

The decision in Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC v. Sony Pictures Classics Inc., et al., (N.D. Miss. July 18, 2013) dealt a quick Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal death-knell to a widely criticized claim by the Faulkner folks who alleged that Sony infringed the copyright in Faulkner's book Requiem for a Nun, where, in Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson's character (Gil Pender) at one point misquotes a line from that book (with attribution credit). The District Court found this was fair use.  

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